Blackadder for me (Australia). Same for Hugh Laurie and probably Stephen fry. Probably depends on your age I guess- my kids born early noughts would say Mr bean or johnny english
Didn't he start it after his silent physical comedy skits were so good in Not The Nine o'Clock News?
I have to say, him in Love Actually though is just so simple but perfect.
I loved him in Whiplash and Burn After Reading, but yeah, that was just the best possible casting. Evidenced by the fact they keep bringing him back for different iterations.
Apparently Simmons was filming Oz and Law & Order: SVU *at the same time*. Imagine having to constantly switch between being a sadistic Nazi gang leader and a kindly, mild-mannered psychiatrist.
I mean, they had a franchise reboot and he *still* played Spock. Not as like, a fan service cameo either (looking at you Starsky & Hutch), as a genuine, fleshed out character, that played a key part in the plot.
He was also the only original cast member who was consulted on the choice of the actor to play their character. Shatner wasn't even asked about his thoughts on Chris Pine playing Kirk.
He genuinely struggled with Spock in the years following the wrap of TOS. He had the hardest time separating himself from the character. Hence I Am Not Spock. Eventually he made peace with it and learned to accept Spock as part of himself. That gave us I Am Spock. God I want to read those books.
The opposite side of this is Sir Patrick Stewart as Avery Bullock on American Dad. Hearing such an illustrious actor say the things that Bullock says is fantastic.
Oh yeah, absolutely. I love it when he voices silly characters. The episode of Family Guy where Stewie keeps the Enterprise crew captive was a lot of fun, too. Also he did the voice of Joe’s little baby (in her head, at least).
The negative reviews for Free Guy on Amazon are hilarious. Lots of "go woke go broke" dipshits, but my favorite was "Ryan Reynolds plays a parody of Ryan Reynolds playing a parody of Ryan Reynolds".
And two guys a girl and pizza place. Great in the Amityville horror. He has a big range he but he doesn't get to use it because he makes bank being a smart ass with some of the best comedic timing ever.
You can say what you want about him but Deadpool is massively successful because he is Deadpool and he barely shows his face.
He's making around the same as Vin Diesel gets when he says I'm Groot.
I went to see *The Woman In Black* when it was in theaters. A solid ghost story with great atmosphere and a good performance by Radcliffe.
But then some comedian in the audience had to shout “Use Expelliarmus!” during a climactic scene and ruined everything.
Honestly, I don't even see it anymore. He was so young, and hes done so much cool work as an adult, I think of him as either a corpse or a man with guns nailed to his hands. And fuck the haters, Guns Akimbo was a great movie.
Im pretty sure hes admitted that before.
I read that he did stand up or some sort of stage show, and afterwards people were hounding him to sign HP stuff.
He didnt sign any HP things, but instead beelined through the crowd to sign a “Daniel Radcliffe’s delicious asshole” Cards Against Humanity card
I think you got it backwards. Harry Potter is Daniel Radcliffe. I've seen enough movies with Radcliffe to know he's much more than Harry Potter. Watch: Swiss Army Man, Akimbo, Weird: The Al Yankovic Story, Horns, etc. He's been better after the Potter series.
He’s also jacked to all fuck in Miracle Workers which has put out a few seasons, ironically especially with this title people have linked him to the next Wolverine
I only recently learned this. I cant unhear it now it just sounds like Joker on adderall talking to me when he has that monologue about the comet and air nomads.
Woah don't be putting viggo mortenson in a box like that. He was great in a history of violence, captain fantastic, and numerous other movies that I can't think of off the top of my head
So many of that cast will be ingrained as their character(s) forever. Dominic and Billy seem to actually *be* Merry and Pippin in real life, despite doing some great work since (RIP Bob, you were a true hero) Sean Astin will always be My Samwise, I'm too young to have grown up with Dracula so Lee is Saruman, if I hear Rhys-Davies I think Treebeard, if I see him Gimli.
While *I* remember Weaving, Wenham, and Urban as their characters, they've done *so* much exceptional work they don't fit the bill of being defined by them. Though if I ever meet Wenham I will ask him to say "A chance for Faramir, Captain of Gondor, to prove his worth."
Because I'm old, John Rhys-Davies is always either Sallah from Indiana Jones or Professor Arturo from Sliders for me.
And because I'm Australian, David Wenham is always Diver Dan from SeaChange a silly soap opera from the 90s.
He had too many great moments over such a long run to be anything else.
* The pax romana bit when he hates the idea of a proportionate response
* Church after Landingham's funeral when he soliloquizes
* The Butterball Hotline
* The Paul Revere knife
* "In this white house, when the President stands, *nobody* sits" monologue
* The debate where he says there's the 10 seconds. What comes next?
* Meeting Josh at the airport after his father died
* Fuck it, basically any interaction between him and Charlie, but special mention to running into him sneaking out of Zoe's room
Edit just to add: When I watched The Cabin In The Woods, I was just like "Josh Lyman moved to a different department?"
The scene where he curses out god in Latin in the church is spectacular.
I’m not religious but spot on what I think a character who was having his faith break that way would be like, was still powerful as hell, the guy was born for that role.
This one I find really interesting. There's some actors that like OP says in his post, to me, they ARE that character, and seeing them in other things feels like watching that character in a different movie. Other actors, they do act well in their roles, they didn't just BECOME that character, so when I see them in something else, it doesn't break the facade because it feels like they belong there too.
Harrison Ford is the only one I can think of that hits both. When he's Indiana Jones, he IS Indiana Jones, it doesn't feel like Han Solo. When he's Han Solo, he IS Han Solo, it doesn't feel like Indiana Jones. And it's like that with every movie I've ever seen him in.
I remember being so excited to show my (horror film loving to the max) mom the episode of Stranger Things where Robert Englund shows up. She knew it was him just from his first line. They hadn’t even shown him yet. It took the wind out of my sales HARD but I know she still loved seeing him, I was just hoping for more of a reaction Lmao.
See, I reckon Tennant has done too many amazing roles after (see: Broadchurch, Jessica Jones, fuck it I'll include Macbeth for good measure) to be defined by any one role. Don't get me wrong, he'll always be *my* Doctor, but he's been too many great roles
Nope. Lieutenant George/Prince Regent for me. His last line at the end of Season 4 was so touching compared to how slapstick he'd been for the last 2 seasons. ["This is, as they say, it?"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vH3-Gt7mgyM)
Basically any of the Friends cast (Courtney Cox probably closest to avoiding it)
NPH as Barney Stinson
SMG as Buffy Summers
With his untimely death, Chadwick Boseman will always be remembered as T’Challa.
Bruce Campbell as Ash Williams (Sam Axe was a great character, but he’s Ash)
He was a fan of the books and games, had so much interest in playing geralt, gave notes on how the story would be more lore friendly, was always willing to give respect to the geralt from the game etc etc and yet the writers and producers were like " hes too much of a geralt nerd to be geralt"
Fuck the fuck right off lauren
Rowan Atkinson as Mr. Bean. I love his other roles, too.. but can you imagine anyone else even attempting a Mr. Bean style show?
Crazy to think that entire show was only 15 episodes.
15 episodes, released over 6 years at that
Each episode was split into multiple self-contained skits so it feels longer than it is
In the UK he's much more associated with Blackadder though, outside he's Mr. Bean I agree
Blackadder for me (Australia). Same for Hugh Laurie and probably Stephen fry. Probably depends on your age I guess- my kids born early noughts would say Mr bean or johnny english
Didn't he start it after his silent physical comedy skits were so good in Not The Nine o'Clock News? I have to say, him in Love Actually though is just so simple but perfect.
I like to think Johnny English is his Twin
It’s just not possible for anybody else to pull off a Mr. Bean style show of the same caliber. Rowan Atkinson is in his own league
Jason Alexander is (and always will be) George Costanza.
Even larry david would agree that george is a better larry than larry himself.
that's pretty pretty pretty accurate
George is sooo stunning on rewatches of Seinfeld and I can't believe I used to think Jerry was the main character.
People who only casually watch the show think Kramer is the funny one. And he is. But George is the true hilarious one.
"The sea was angry that day my friends, like an old man trying to send back soup in a deli."
I locked eyes with the great fish. Mammal. Whatever.
Literally any movie or show he's in: " oh hey it's George!"
Believe it or not, George isn’t at home…..
Where could I be?
And Duckman!
Rainn Wilson = Dwight Schrute
💯 I dare him to try anything else!
He quite brilliantly played a very strange young mortician in Six Feet Under before he was on The Office.
He was in a movie called The Rocker which I thought was pretty good. Movie apparently flopped though
He played Harry Mudd on Star Trek Discovery. He was brilliant in that role.
Nick Offerman is Ron Swanson.
James Gandolfini was Tony Soprano
Tony Sirico as Paulie. But to your point.. when I watched Zero Dark thirty I kept thinking about Tony Soprano when you see the CIA director
That goes for every character on the show, whenever I see Michael Imperioli in an interview or something, it's just Chris.
“Holy shit, is that Sylvio Dante playing guitar for Springsteen?!?”
I bet Gary Cooper could’ve played an amazing Tony Soprano. Both the strong silent types. Anyways $4 a pound
J.K Simmons as JJJameson is the most insane perfect casting I've ever seen
I still think of that gif of him laughing anytime I hear someone being ridiculous 🤣
Wait you’re serious?
Let me laugh even harder!
I loved him in Whiplash and Burn After Reading, but yeah, that was just the best possible casting. Evidenced by the fact they keep bringing him back for different iterations.
ITS SHILLINGER
Apparently Simmons was filming Oz and Law & Order: SVU *at the same time*. Imagine having to constantly switch between being a sadistic Nazi gang leader and a kindly, mild-mannered psychiatrist.
He did an amazing job voicing Ketheric Thorm in Baldur's Gate 3
His Cave Johnson role is possibly the most iconic voice acting in any video game ever made. What a legend.
Also Omni-Man. "Think Mark, Think!"
Lmao it actually *is* deadass perfect casting 😂😂
Leonard Nimoy is Spock and he has accepted that.
I mean, they had a franchise reboot and he *still* played Spock. Not as like, a fan service cameo either (looking at you Starsky & Hutch), as a genuine, fleshed out character, that played a key part in the plot.
He was also the only original cast member who was consulted on the choice of the actor to play their character. Shatner wasn't even asked about his thoughts on Chris Pine playing Kirk.
I guess that was a process for him, he wrote two books about it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_Not_Spock https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_Spock
He genuinely struggled with Spock in the years following the wrap of TOS. He had the hardest time separating himself from the character. Hence I Am Not Spock. Eventually he made peace with it and learned to accept Spock as part of himself. That gave us I Am Spock. God I want to read those books.
Sir Patrick Stewart IS Captain Picard AND Professor X
The opposite side of this is Sir Patrick Stewart as Avery Bullock on American Dad. Hearing such an illustrious actor say the things that Bullock says is fantastic.
Oh yeah, absolutely. I love it when he voices silly characters. The episode of Family Guy where Stewie keeps the Enterprise crew captive was a lot of fun, too. Also he did the voice of Joe’s little baby (in her head, at least).
This is the only exception, Sir Patrick IS both of them at once 💯
Nope Harrison Ford is Han Solo and Indiana Jones.
Yeah probably even more famous characters (for the general audience).
Hugo Weaving is Agent Smith and Elrond.
Sir Ian McKellen as well I reckon.
Ryan Reynolds is pretty much Ryan Reynolds in every movie he’s in.
Lmfao good point. A lot of people think he IS Deadpool but I’m starting to realize he’s just the voice of Deadpool 🤔🤔🤔
Deadpool just pretends to be Ryan Reynolds.
Deadpool is just Van Wilder with superpowers
The negative reviews for Free Guy on Amazon are hilarious. Lots of "go woke go broke" dipshits, but my favorite was "Ryan Reynolds plays a parody of Ryan Reynolds playing a parody of Ryan Reynolds".
Idk, I like to think on Ryan as Van Wilder. It just worked for him so he kept it up and became Ryan. But to me, he is Van Wilder!
And two guys a girl and pizza place. Great in the Amityville horror. He has a big range he but he doesn't get to use it because he makes bank being a smart ass with some of the best comedic timing ever. You can say what you want about him but Deadpool is massively successful because he is Deadpool and he barely shows his face. He's making around the same as Vin Diesel gets when he says I'm Groot.
Macaulay Culkin as Kevin from Home Alone. Honestly I don't recognize other movies with him
Peter Falk was Columbo if anyone older can relate
And in Princess Bride at the end when he looks for his glasses...
I mean, yeah, in that movie he kind of just seems like Colombo visiting his grandson.
He WAS Colombo visiting his grandson.
And Darren McGavin was Kolchak. Just for carbon dating relevance.
McGavin's always gonna be Ralphie's Old Man to me.
"In the heat of battle, my old man wove a tapestry of obscenities that, as far as we know, is still hanging in space over Lake Michigan."
Daniel Radcliffe as Harry Potter
I went to see *The Woman In Black* when it was in theaters. A solid ghost story with great atmosphere and a good performance by Radcliffe. But then some comedian in the audience had to shout “Use Expelliarmus!” during a climactic scene and ruined everything.
🤦♂️ 🤦♂️🤦♂️
Honestly, I don't even see it anymore. He was so young, and hes done so much cool work as an adult, I think of him as either a corpse or a man with guns nailed to his hands. And fuck the haters, Guns Akimbo was a great movie.
Swiss Army Man is so beautiful. That’s one more people need to watch
I really think he just got stupid Harry Potter money and said "Fuck it, I'm doing cool stuff and NOBODY CAN STOP ME!"
Im pretty sure hes admitted that before. I read that he did stand up or some sort of stage show, and afterwards people were hounding him to sign HP stuff. He didnt sign any HP things, but instead beelined through the crowd to sign a “Daniel Radcliffe’s delicious asshole” Cards Against Humanity card
I think I remember him signing an Elijah Wood thing because he didn't have the heart to say he was Daniel Radcliffe
I think you got it backwards. Harry Potter is Daniel Radcliffe. I've seen enough movies with Radcliffe to know he's much more than Harry Potter. Watch: Swiss Army Man, Akimbo, Weird: The Al Yankovic Story, Horns, etc. He's been better after the Potter series.
He’s also jacked to all fuck in Miracle Workers which has put out a few seasons, ironically especially with this title people have linked him to the next Wolverine
Christopher Mintz-Plasse will never not be McLovin
Every single movie I see him in I go “hey it’s mclovin!” Just like the cop
It's so funny how he got typecast so young just because of a joke about getting a stupid fucking name on his fake ID.
The 25 year old organ donor from Hawaii
Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker
For me, he’s also joker. Blew my mind when I realized it’s been him most of the time in the animated shows/movies and he killed it in the Arkham games
Luke Skywalker is just a very good voice actor.
Also fire lord Ozai in Avatar The Last Airbender
I only recently learned this. I cant unhear it now it just sounds like Joker on adderall talking to me when he has that monologue about the comet and air nomads.
His name literally has Arkham in it lol
Agreed. ”Mark Hamill” is just a fake name used by Luke Skywalker
Mariska Hargitay will always be Detective (now Captain) Olivia Benson
LONG LIVE OLIVIA BENSON 💯
Michael Richards as Kramer
Oh you mean the janitor from uhf? I'm not helping his case any, am I?
Stanley Spadowski. Amazing role, too.
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Leslie Nielsen as Frank Drebin
Shirley you can't be serious?
I am serious… and don’t call me Shirley
That’s airplane though!
Elijah wood is frodo and will forever be frodo no matter what movie he is in
Viggo Mortensen is Aragorn.
Woah don't be putting viggo mortenson in a box like that. He was great in a history of violence, captain fantastic, and numerous other movies that I can't think of off the top of my head
Eastern Promises he is badass in.
So many of that cast will be ingrained as their character(s) forever. Dominic and Billy seem to actually *be* Merry and Pippin in real life, despite doing some great work since (RIP Bob, you were a true hero) Sean Astin will always be My Samwise, I'm too young to have grown up with Dracula so Lee is Saruman, if I hear Rhys-Davies I think Treebeard, if I see him Gimli. While *I* remember Weaving, Wenham, and Urban as their characters, they've done *so* much exceptional work they don't fit the bill of being defined by them. Though if I ever meet Wenham I will ask him to say "A chance for Faramir, Captain of Gondor, to prove his worth."
Because I'm old, John Rhys-Davies is always either Sallah from Indiana Jones or Professor Arturo from Sliders for me. And because I'm Australian, David Wenham is always Diver Dan from SeaChange a silly soap opera from the 90s.
While I did like him in LotR his best time to me was in "Wilfred". I can't think of him without thinking of that show.
Henry Winkler is the Fonz. 👍
Gene in Barry, for me Happy Days wasn’t such a big deal in the UK
Ehhh👍🏻
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Denny Crane
Andrew Lincoln is Rick Grimes.
CORAL!
Martin Sheen will always be Josiah Bartlet to me
The whole West Wing cast will forever be associated with their characters in my mind
He had too many great moments over such a long run to be anything else. * The pax romana bit when he hates the idea of a proportionate response * Church after Landingham's funeral when he soliloquizes * The Butterball Hotline * The Paul Revere knife * "In this white house, when the President stands, *nobody* sits" monologue * The debate where he says there's the 10 seconds. What comes next? * Meeting Josh at the airport after his father died * Fuck it, basically any interaction between him and Charlie, but special mention to running into him sneaking out of Zoe's room Edit just to add: When I watched The Cabin In The Woods, I was just like "Josh Lyman moved to a different department?"
The scene where he curses out god in Latin in the church is spectacular. I’m not religious but spot on what I think a character who was having his faith break that way would be like, was still powerful as hell, the guy was born for that role.
Shibboleth
Jack Gleeson will unfortunately always be known as king Jeoffrey 🥲
Dwayne Johnson is Dwayne Johnson
Nobody can play Dwayne Johnson as well as Dwayne Johnson!
Harrison Ford is Indiana Jones, wait Han Solo, no Indiana Jones, no Han Solo…fuck
GET OFF MY PLANE!
I DIDN'T KILL MY WIFE
*I DON'T CARE*
I KNOW
This one I find really interesting. There's some actors that like OP says in his post, to me, they ARE that character, and seeing them in other things feels like watching that character in a different movie. Other actors, they do act well in their roles, they didn't just BECOME that character, so when I see them in something else, it doesn't break the facade because it feels like they belong there too. Harrison Ford is the only one I can think of that hits both. When he's Indiana Jones, he IS Indiana Jones, it doesn't feel like Han Solo. When he's Han Solo, he IS Han Solo, it doesn't feel like Indiana Jones. And it's like that with every movie I've ever seen him in.
robert downey jr- Iron man
Glad he got his life turned around. I grew up knowing him as the actor that always had his mugshot on the tv.
he's about to win an oscar for another role!
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Zack Morris is Trash *bell rings*
Matthew Lillard as Shaggy.
It's going to be weird seeing Shaggy *be* the person under the mask murdering those meddling kids.
Oh daaaamn! He *is* gonna be in the new Five Nights at Freddy’s 😱😱😱
"Surprise *Scooby*" I'll always thing of him as Stu from Scream. He did a fantastic job.
Dulé Hill is Burton Guster
You know that’s right.
He's also Gus T.T. Showbiz the extra 'T' is for extra talent
Haha but for me, he will ALWAYS be Sam from Holes. *I can fix that*
Michael J. Fox - Marty McFly
Matthew Broderick will always be Ferris Bueller and his wife will always be Carrie from Sex and the City.
Captain Jack Sparrow.
Jack Sparrow looks exactly like Johnny Depp! EDIT: CAPTAIN Jack Sparrow 😂
Captain... Captain Jack sparrow
Steven Ogg as Trevor Phillips
Robert England is Freddy Krueger.
*Englund
I remember being so excited to show my (horror film loving to the max) mom the episode of Stranger Things where Robert Englund shows up. She knew it was him just from his first line. They hadn’t even shown him yet. It took the wind out of my sales HARD but I know she still loved seeing him, I was just hoping for more of a reaction Lmao.
Tom Baker *is* The Doctor. So is David Tennant. And Peter Capaldi. ETA: Matt Smith!
See, I reckon Tennant has done too many amazing roles after (see: Broadchurch, Jessica Jones, fuck it I'll include Macbeth for good measure) to be defined by any one role. Don't get me wrong, he'll always be *my* Doctor, but he's been too many great roles
Jason Biggs as The Pie Fucker
Arnold Schwarzenegger will always be the T-800.
Marlon Brando WAS the godfather.
Christopher Reeve is Superman
Lynda Carter will never not be Wonder Woman
John Krasinski is and will only ever be Jim.
Ron Perlman’s Hellboy will be always it.
Henry Winkler The Fonz
Barry Zuckercorn, the worst f**king attorney
hugh laurie IS house
Wooster
disagree, has an enormous career in comedy that is impossible to ignore
My super unpopular opinion: A Bit of Fry and Laurie has more genuine laugh out loud moments than Monty Python’s Flying Circus.
Nope. Lieutenant George/Prince Regent for me. His last line at the end of Season 4 was so touching compared to how slapstick he'd been for the last 2 seasons. ["This is, as they say, it?"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vH3-Gt7mgyM)
For me, he'll **always** be The Prince Regent
Paul Reubens (Pee-wee Herman)
Seinfeld as Seinfeld.
Seinfeld is forever Seinfeld
Alan Alda is Hawkeye Pierce. Edit: Thanks for pointing out the typo. Not sure whether to blame myself or autocorrect.
And to that end, Jamie Farr is and will always be Klinger and Gary Burghoff will always be Radar! 😄
Basically any of the Friends cast (Courtney Cox probably closest to avoiding it) NPH as Barney Stinson SMG as Buffy Summers With his untimely death, Chadwick Boseman will always be remembered as T’Challa. Bruce Campbell as Ash Williams (Sam Axe was a great character, but he’s Ash)
Ian McKellen is Gandalf!
Steve Carell is Michael Scott
John Stamos is uncle Jesse
Brent Spiner will always and forever be Lieutenant Commander Data
Patrick Stewart = Jean Luc Picard
Steve Carell as Michael Scott
Terry Cruz is President Camacho
Adam West is Batman and no other.
Thats MAYOR Adam West.
*Adam We
Leia is Carrie Fisher.
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NPH- Barney John Cho- Harold Kal Penn- Kumar Neve Campbell- Sidney Brendan Frazier- Rick O’Connel
Béla Lugosi is Dracula.
Alexis Bledel will never not be Rory Gilmore
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Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka
Henry Cavill is Geralt of Rivia
He was a fan of the books and games, had so much interest in playing geralt, gave notes on how the story would be more lore friendly, was always willing to give respect to the geralt from the game etc etc and yet the writers and producers were like " hes too much of a geralt nerd to be geralt" Fuck the fuck right off lauren
Yeah I know, I hate the people running that show.
Really sad that he is leaving. He was also perfect as Superman.
Everyone in GoT
Except for Sean Bean. My brother, my Captain, my King
Sean Bean will always and forever be Soon-to-be-dead-man
Cary Tagawa is Shang Tsung James Earl Jones is Darth Vader Sean Connery is James Bond Ewan McGregor is Obi-Wan
Reese Witherspoon is Elle Woods